Chicago Cinema Museum
Silent Projectors
RCA television camera.
Credits: TR
Powers projector on left. Motiograph on right.
Credits: GM, TR
Green projector on ledge is a Bell and Howell "JAN" (joint Army/Navy) 16mm from the 1950s. To it's right is a DeVry "suitcase" portable 35mm. The top shelf in the glass case has a Powers and the bottom shelf from left to right is: Optigraph #2, Optigraph #3 and the right corner at the wall is a Powers #5.
Credits: SN, TR
All Motiograph projectors. From left to right is an Optigraph, 1-A and another 1-A with 1916 model lamphouse.
Credits: GM, TR
A full line of Motiographs. From left to right is a model "E" setup consisting of 1-A projector and lamp on a DeLuxe motorized base. Next is a Motiograph K and a Motiograph AAA with a SH7500 sound head and AAA penthouse.
Credits: GM, TR
We have a debate on the left machine. Is it a Powers 5 or an Edison Projecting Kinetoscope?
The silver camera is a Newman Sinclair and the camera on the right is a Moy camera.
Credits: GM, TR
A Royal projector.
Credits: TR
An American Standard with a Peerless lamphouse is in the foreground.
Credits: TR
Another debate. Is the gray projector head in the center of the picture a BlueSeal Superior or a Westar?
Credits: GM, TR
In the backgrouns is a Peerless Hy-Candescent lamp on a Norelco AAII.
Credits: TR
Another Royal projector in the middle.
Credits: TR
A Prestwich projector in the foreground, right.
Credits: TR
???
Looks like something from a Tim Burton movie!
???
More leftovers from a Tim Burton movie.
On the lower right is a 24 inch reel of 35mm film on a Goldberg floating hub reel!!!
(Just HAD to put that one in.)
A Wurlitzer pedestal.
Credits: TR
To the right of center is a Kinetoscope.
Credits: TR
In the bottom of the right case is a Prestwich.
Credits: TR
Left is a Powers Cameragraph #5. Middle is a Powers 6A. Right is a Powers 6-B.
Credits: GM, TR
A Powers 6-B Type "E".
Credits: TR
On the right is a Mole-Richardson "Brute" lamp.
Credits: TR
Another dispute. Is the projector head a Bauer B2 or a Monee?
Credits: GM, TR
Yet again, no clue.
Special thanks to Marc Gulbrandsen and Kerry Williams for the pics.
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Credits for these captions given to:
GM: Gordon McLeod
SN: Scott Norwood
TR: Tim Reed